The Arena of the Abyss (AotA) will be returning this year. Price to enter will be the same (100 seashells) with the same combat format. The experience orbs that dropped in the arena were intended to be 400 XP. In April of this year, we changed XP orbs from 100, 200, 300, and 400 to 250, 500, 750, and 1000 respectively. We didn't anticipate there to be so many yellow orbs out there from AotA still.

This year, we'll be dropping shimmering green orbs, which are modifiers. They will award 250 flat XP and will modify how much experience you absorb briefly.

The other rewards are fusion tokens which can be used to work with the fusion shaman or sold to the junker for some seashells, a withered dried-out heart that can be broken apart for silvers, a gem, or a standard treasure drop, and the necrotic rings.

AotA will be opening up when all other games open up.

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Wyrom, PM

what are we to do from october 1st through the 10th?

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This year, there will be a few purchasable upgrades to necrotic rings that should available in the next week or two:

Unstable Manifestation: in addition to the existing worn finger location, your necrotic jewelry can be upgraded to add new worn locations: wrist, ankle, neck, and ear. This will also affect the illusion that the jewelry projects. Each new worn location will cost 25,000 seashells to unlock and will allow you to rotate between your unlocked worn locations at any time.

Lich's Curse: this curse causes the necrotic jewelry to have a chance to spawn a greater (boss) undead creature when it triggers. These are normal boss creatures which are higher level and have a random selection of boons. Killing these creatures results in long-term experience and more treasure (compared to their non-boss variants). It will cost 10,000 seashells to increase the odds of the curse triggering by 1%, unlockable up to 100 times (100% chance). This curse can be enabled/disabled at will on the jewelry, causing only normal undead to spawn.

Voln's Blessing: The Destroyer of the Undead blesses those who complete his work. When you slay an undead generated by your necrotic jewelry, there is a chance to receive Voln's Blessing, which results in +15 AS, +15 DS, +10 CS, and +10 TD for 30 seconds It will cost 10,000 seashells to increase the odds of the blessing triggering by 1%, unlockable up to 100 times (100% chance).

GameMaster Estild

Wyrom, can you please advise whether the drop rate on orbs was changed? It appears to have been nearly halved compared to last year.

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This is AWESOME!!

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This sounds like a very exciting addition. Thanks for the effort that went into making this happen. I'm already planning on going down the Lich's Curse and Unstable Manifestation upgrade tree somewhat.

Is there a chance you could revisit the Voln's Blessing upgrade tree? Especially the duration of the effect. I was trying to come up with at least close to an apples to apples comparison on the cost per benefit calculations, and here's what I came up with. The cost for 13 minutes a day of Voln's Blessing (that means Voln's Blessing will trigger 10,000 times over the course of a year) is roughly equivalent to the cost of the off-the-shelf price of three and a half Empathic Focus (1109) pendants sold previously at DR. At 101 MIU ranks, each one of those pendants will give over one hour's usage. Voln's Blessing adds an interesting dynamic to the item, but at 13 minutes per day, the value isn't there unless the duration is about 20-30x longer. Perhaps it could be a refreshable, non-stackable, 10 minute buff?

That's just my 2 cents. Certainly not a complaint since I'm only window shopping. Thanks for the consideration.

A birdy told me that you were looking for some information on the Updates.... Here goes:

TURN - You turn a smooth bone ring pierced by tiny crystal shards over in your hand, the shape of it warping and twisting before your eyes. A pulling sensation, somewhere behind your eyes, causes a wave of nausea to overtake you and your vision swims. Bile fills your mouth, and you gulp for air. The moment is brief, thankfully, and as your vision finally clears you see a smooth bone bracelet pierced by tiny crystal shards in your hand.

WEAR BRACELET - Sending sharp needles through the entire length of your hand, you feel the burn of a smooth bone bracelet pierced by tiny crystal shards necrotic energy as it slips over your hand to settle on your wrist.

LOOK Player - Split like the skin of an overripe piece of fruit, her (complexion) flesh parts beneath the touch of a smooth bone bracelet pierced by tiny crystal shards. Blackened and slightly shriveled, her hand resembles the dried out husk of something that has been mummified.

REMOVE BRACELET - You lift a smooth bone bracelet pierced by tiny crystal shards off of the bones of your wrist and feel nauseous as the pain of removing the device nearly blinds you.

TURN - You turn a smooth bone bracelet pierced by tiny crystal shards over in your hand, the shape of it warping and twisting before your eyes. A pulling sensation, somewhere behind your eyes, causes a wave of nausea to overtake you and your vision swims. Bile fills your mouth, and you gulp for air. The moment is brief, thankfully, and as your vision finally clears you see a smooth bone necklace pierced by tiny crystal shards in your hand.

WEAR NECKLACE - You carefully link a smooth bone necklace pierced by tiny crystal shards around your neck by its simple chain. Instantly, a choking sensation alerts you the pain of its pendant melting into the hollow of your neck.

LOOK Player - Whistling wetly, her flesh is rotted and raw around a smooth bone necklace pierced by tiny crystal shards which has exposed holes in her trachea.

REMOVE NECKLACE - Waves of pain seem to tempt you to leave a smooth bone necklace pierced by tiny crystal shards where it rests, but you power through it and pull the pendant from the flesh at the follow of your neck.

TURN - You turn a smooth bone necklace pierced by tiny crystal shards over in your hand, the shape of it warping and twisting before your eyes. A pulling sensation, somewhere behind your eyes, causes a wave of nausea to overtake you and your vision swims. Bile fills your mouth, and you gulp for air. The moment is brief, thankfully, and as your vision finally clears you see a smooth bone earring pierced by tiny crystal shards in your hand.

WEAR EARRING - You carefully attach a smooth bone earring pierced by tiny crystal shards to your ear lobe and are blinded by the sound of a thousand voices yammering in your ear. They promise to eat your flesh. They promise to drink your blood. They promise you will live.

LOOK Player - Clinging bits of tattered flesh hanging off the side of her skull, a smooth bone anklet pierced by tiny crystal shards is coated in a thin layer of dried blood.

REMOVE EARRING - As you remove a smooth bone earring pierced by tiny crystal shards from your ear lobe, you feel a stabbing pain in your ear. Voices whisper to you, a single quiet promise… they will find you.

TURN - You turn a smooth bone earring pierced by tiny crystal shards over in your hand, the shape of it warping and twisting before your eyes. A pulling sensation, somewhere behind your eyes, causes a wave of nausea to overtake you and your vision swims. Bile fills your mouth, and you gulp for air. The moment is brief, thankfully, and as your vision finally clears you see a smooth bone anklet pierced by tiny crystal shards in your hand.

WEAR ANKLET - Searing pain takes hold of your sciatic nerve as you wear a smooth bone anklet pierced by tiny crystal shards, the fiery hot sensation reaching to your hip.

LOOK Player - Her ankle bone is exposed, a fine trail of ichor green pus and blood trickling from an open wound where a smooth bone anklet pierced by tiny crystal shards rests.

REMOVE ANKLET - Prying a smooth bone anklet pierced by tiny crystal shards out of the open wound of your ankle, you feel a familiar jolt of pain traverse your sciatic nerve.


~*~ Thandiwe ~*~
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Hello, I would like to request the following adjustments to the purchasable upgrades for necrotic rings:

Lich's Curse: Base 10% trigger on initial purchase
Voln's Blessing: Base 10% trigger on initial purchase

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I've noticed that the boss critters that spawn from the necrotic ring sometimes award less than the full amount of LTE per kill. This appears to happen when my group kills the critter before I can get a hit in. This would be less of an issue if that LTE was awarded to someone else, but it isn't. No one else in the group earns LTE from boss creatures spawned from necrotic rings, which means that a good portion of that LTE is just going to waste. With the amount of time required running Arena of the Abyss to harvest enough necrotic ring charges for the LTE goals I had in mind, it would be a shame to see that LTE go to waste. Could someone look into whether this is working as intended?


>[You have been awarded 17 Long Term Experience!]
>[You have been awarded 16 Long Term Experience!]
>[You have been awarded 53 Long Term Experience!]
>[You have been awarded 45 Long Term Experience!]

I tried out my necrotic ring on a krolvin pirate ship that I encountered while doing Open Sea Adventures. The necro ring successfully spawned two spectral boss critters, and neither granted LTE before I disabled the necrotic ring.

voln's blessing doesn't work ( tested for over an hour of non stop hunting at 8 %percent change and another person tested with 50% )

use often enough to get 50k plus LTE & another person got enough for 200k LTE

seems silly paying for upgrades & charges for something that doesn't work

Estild, thanks for the update on these. The information on analyze is very helpful. I'd posted a while back on this but was hoping if I could get your feedback on whether a certain situation is working as intended.

If my necrotic ring spawns a boss creature, but my group kills it before I can get a hit in, I would get rewarded with only very small amounts of experience. The amounts vary, but I've seen in the low teens, 20-somethings, 30-somethings, etc. It would be great if I could get the full LTE even if I'm not quick enough to get in a hit before my group kills it, and alternatively, it would make more sense if the rest of the exp was split among the group, but that isn't the case either. Is this working as intended?